The Eagles believed. Then they beat Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots at their own game to register their first Super Bowl title. Nick Foles threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns and Brandon Graham sacked Brady with 2:09 left, forcing a fumble to secure a 41-33 victory over the Patriots Sunday night at U.S. Bank Stadium.

When pre-Super Bowl LII discussions turned to Eagles MVP candidates, Nick Foles was nowhere to be found. Fletcher Cox, check. Alshon Jeffery, check. Zach Ertz, Jay Ajayi, check and check. Not that Foles cared. That’s what made beating Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, 41-33, and walking off with MVP honors Sunday night was such a rush for Foles. He completed 28 of 43 pass attempts for 373 yards with three touchdowns and one interception for a 106.1 passer rating, the fourth straight playoff game with a rating of 100 or more.

At some point during each of the last 45 professional football seasons, a band of former players has paused to brandish champagne glasses in a tired blast of arrogance. They are the remaining members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who finished a season undefeated, the Super Bowl included. No team has done that since. For that, they will make it public that no one, other than their own selves, can claim to have achieved perfection. They were trolls, long, long before it was possible to do that with a few taps on a pocket phone.

Photographer Pete Bannan was out on the streets in Haverford as the celebration of the Eagles Super Bowl championship started. Eagles fans take to the streets in Region, Philly to celebrate Super Bowl Championship.

The rain and hail that pelted Philadelphia for much of the day dissipated just as people across the city spilled out of sports bars, apartments and houses. It was time for a celebration 58 years in the making. On Sunday night, just as Nick Foles led the Philadelphia Eagles to a surprise Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots in Minneapolis, the scene more than 1,000 miles away in Philly was jubilation and pandemonium.

The long wait is over. The Eagles are Super Bowl champions. And the party has already started. In a wild, back-and forth effort, fans were left biting their nails until the final seconds, but at 10:17 p.m. the Philadelphia Eagles became Super Bowl champions.

During advertising’s biggest showcase, tame humor and messages about social causes ruled the day. Slapstick humor, sexual innuendo and chest thumping patriotic messages were, for the most part, nowhere in sight. After a divisive year, advertisers during the Big Game worked overtime to win over audiences with messages that entertained and strove not to offend.

The ball had just been whacked out of Tom Brady’s right hand at the worst possible moment for the New England Patriots, giving the Eagles the ball just before the two-minute warning. Brady sat on the turf, resting his arms on his knees with a pose of resignation. Once he reached the sideline and plopped down on the bench, he lowered his head and stared down for several seconds .

Perhaps there will come a time when Carson Wentz wants to talk about having to watch the Philadelphia Eagles win their first Super Bowl. For the man expected to be the next franchise quarterback for the Eagles, it wasn’t going to be the moments after Nick Foles led a 41-33 win over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots on Sunday night.

Eagles fans took to the borough streets Sunday evening to celebrate the teams’ first ever Super Bowl victory, a thrilling 41-33 victory over defending champions New England Patriots. A large police presence of over 50 West Chester, West Goshen, Chester County Sheriffs and Pennsylvania State police in riot gear stood by in teams as celebrated.

I stole what was supposed to be the opening line of this column for Sunday’s editorial. This one was for our dads. And our moms. And our sisters. And our brothers. And our sons. And our daughters. It’s for everyone who bleeds green